Hi all,
I thought i remembered seeing the spin submission deadline was coming up soon, so I checked this morning. Turns out that the deadline for spin submission is tomorrow (July 12). Oh dear. We already have a spin-in-progress page going[1], I'm going to update our git repo[2] tonight with the latest base .ks file and have our spin's .ks pull in our new comps group. I'll also fix up our spin wiki page and make sure its up to snuff with the guidelines, then mark it ready for the wrangler. After tomorrow's submission deadline, we have two weeks before the spin freeze where we can test thoroughly and make sure our spin works. I'll be in the #fedora-robotics channel on IRC while i'm working.
Hopefully "tomorrow" is in EDT like I am!
Rich
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Robotics_Spin [2] https://github.com/timn/fedora-robotics-spin
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:41:50 -0400, Rich Mattes richmattes@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I thought i remembered seeing the spin submission deadline was coming up soon, so I checked this morning. Turns out that the deadline for spin submission is tomorrow (July 12). Oh dear. We already have a spin-in-progress page going[1], I'm going to update our git repo[2] tonight with the latest base .ks file and have our spin's .ks pull in our new comps group. I'll also fix up our spin wiki page and make sure its up to snuff with the guidelines, then mark it ready for the wrangler. After tomorrow's submission deadline, we have two weeks before the spin freeze where we can test thoroughly and make sure our spin works. I'll be in the #fedora-robotics channel on IRC while i'm working.
While it is a good idea to try to get stuff in promptly, given the Spins SIG continues to not function very well, I wouldn't consider the deadline to be hard. Our Wrangler also is very busy at work and hasn't had much time for spins recently.
Also there has been discussion about changing the way spins are handled so that SIGs can have spins. There should be notes about this on either the advisory board list or in some of the board's meeting notes. The Cloud guys are doing this, and you may want to look at what they are doing as a model.
Also at some point space used for images is an issue, that releng gets to weigh in on. With most spins being relagated to torrent only, I don't think that is as much of an issue. (I believe the size being mirrored was the bottleneck in the past.)
On 07/11/2011 01:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:41:50 -0400, Rich Mattesrichmattes@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I thought i remembered seeing the spin submission deadline was coming up soon, so I checked this morning. Turns out that the deadline for spin submission is tomorrow (July 12). Oh dear. We already have a spin-in-progress page going[1], I'm going to update our git repo[2] tonight with the latest base .ks file and have our spin's .ks pull in our new comps group. I'll also fix up our spin wiki page and make sure its up to snuff with the guidelines, then mark it ready for the wrangler. After tomorrow's submission deadline, we have two weeks before the spin freeze where we can test thoroughly and make sure our spin works. I'll be in the #fedora-robotics channel on IRC while i'm working.
While it is a good idea to try to get stuff in promptly, given the Spins SIG continues to not function very well, I wouldn't consider the deadline to be hard. Our Wrangler also is very busy at work and hasn't had much time for spins recently.
Also there has been discussion about changing the way spins are handled so that SIGs can have spins. There should be notes about this on either the advisory board list or in some of the board's meeting notes. The Cloud guys are doing this, and you may want to look at what they are doing as a model.
Also at some point space used for images is an issue, that releng gets to weigh in on. With most spins being relagated to torrent only, I don't think that is as much of an issue. (I believe the size being mirrored was the bottleneck in the past.)
Thanks for the update! I had a look at the advisory board's mailing list archives from the past couple of months, I saw some mention of the spins process in the latest meeting recap but I couldn't find any more details (just the recap outline.)
I think that we would be OK with managing the spin ourselves, but it would still be beneficial to have some sort of review, if only because it's all of our first attempt at creating a kickstart.
It looks like infrastructure is still up in the air. We are targeting a 4gb dvd size, and would like to have the ISO available somewhere even if it's only one server. Our spin is pretty niche, so it probably won't have a giant download volume. And if we have a bittorrent tracker, we can spread the load a little bit more.
In any case, I have updated & tested our .ks file, and edited our spin's wiki page[1] to reflect its location and the location of some of the spin-related artwork we filed design team tickets for. I guess we will keep playing it by ear as the spins process is refined and keep an eye on the spins mailing list for further developments.
Rich
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